Grist to Pyongyang's mill: Tokyo's trade war with Seoul



Columns Grist to Pyongyang’s mill: Tokyo’s trade war with Seoul North Korea will seek to gain from the fallout created by the feuding allies Aidan Foster-Carter July 24, 2019 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON Blue House This article is the second part of a two-part series by Aidan Foster-Carter on the ongoing trade spat between South Korea and Japan. You can read part one here. The nation that gave the world Pearl Harbor has not lost the art of the surprise attack. Hosting the G20 summit in Osaka last month, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke up stoutly for global free trade. In implicit critique of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade wars, Abe insisted in a speech on June 28: “Now is the time we communicate a strong message for the maintenance and strengthening of a © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. Get the Daily Update & Podcast Updates Start your day with the North Korea stories that matter most – as selected by Trending

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Grist to Pyongyang’s mill: Tokyo’s trade war with Seoul

North Korea will seek to gain from the fallout created by the feuding allies

Aidan Foster-Carter July 24, 2019

Grist to Pyongyang’s mill: Tokyo’s trade war with Seoul

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This article is the second part of a two-part series by Aidan Foster-Carter on the ongoing trade spat between South Korea and Japan. You can read part one here.

The nation that gave the world Pearl Harbor has not lost the art of the surprise attack.

Hosting the G20 summit in Osaka last month, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke up stoutly for global free trade.

In implicit critique of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade wars, Abe insisted in a speech on June 28: “Now is the time we communicate a strong message for the maintenance and strengthening of a

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Aidan Foster-Carter

Aidan Foster-Carter is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University in England. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he taught sociology at the Universities of Hull, Dar es Salaam and Leeds from 1971 to 1997. Having followed Korean affairs since 1968, since 1997 he has been a full-time analyst and consultant on Korea: writing, lecturing and broadcasting for academic, business and policy audiences in the UK and worldwide.

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